Jüdischer Friedhof
Jüdischer Friedhof stands in Freiburg im Breisgau, at the corner of Elsässer Straße and Rosbaumweg. More than eighty-two ares hold around nine hundred gravestones, known as Mazevot. Established by Freiburg’s Jewish community in 1870, the cemetery is a protected cultural monument.
The site reflects the community’s difficult history after a settlement ban ended in 1806. Its grounds became a resting place for Gustav Weil, an Orientalist, and Robert Grumbach, a lawyer and city councillor. The original cemetery hall, built in 1891, was replaced before 1914 and destroyed during the Nazi regime in 1938. Freiburg funded a new hall between 1949 and 1952 through a restitution agreement.
A separate section permits burials for non-Jewish family members and people with special merits. A war memorial commemorates Jewish soldiers who died in the First World War. A 1986 memorial stone remembers Jewish victims of Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1945. Limited space led to an additional Jewish burial field in Freiburg-St. Georgen.
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